Kingston High Partnership with Brothers@ and Bard College Helping Teens “Take Charge of Their Educations and Their Futures”
Brothers@Bard students participate in a meeting at Kingston High School. Photo courtesy of Jessica Clegg/Ulster BOCES
Since first partnering with Brothers@ and Bard College in 2015, students at Kingston High who participated in the program have “achieved an overall graduation rate of over 90%,” writes the Daily Freeman. Brothers@, founded at Bard by Dariel Vasquez ’17 and Harry Johnson ’17, partners with institutions to improve the educational outcomes of young men of color through their “Our Space” methodology. At Kingston High, high school students are matched with current Bard students as mentees “to foster academic persistence as well as positive identity and character development.” With the success of the program, Brothers@ and Kingston High hope to expand their offerings to create a “brotherhood-bridge-program” for seventh and eighth graders “to receive support, mentoring, and guidance before they enter high school.”
Post Date: 02-14-2023
Post Date: 02-14-2023